The chairman of Orbost Regional Health's board, Catrynes Van Der Vlught, says the service has been looking for a new CEO since Therese Tierney resigned to become the CEO of Bairnsdale Regional Health earlier this year.

"It will be fantastic, they will be overjoyed that we've won this because ... we lost our chief executive officer at the end of last financial year and we haven't been able to recruit, to this point, and to win this at this time, they will be overjoyed," he said.